The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see
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The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see resource for landlubbers and mariners alike.

Carol Gafford is a public librarian, family historian, amateur archivist and book savior. She is currently the youth services/outreach librarian at the Swansea Public Library and volunteers for several museum and historical societies including the Marine Museum at Fall River, the Swansea Historical Society and the Bristol Historical and Preservation society. She is the editor of Past Times, the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists and is always looking for a new project to take on.

I've been doing a potato grow bag experiment this year and some of the Yukon Gold plants were looking a little withered which is usually the clear sign post bloom that they are ready for harvest. So I poked my hand into one corner of the bag (that's the benefit of filling the top two-thirds of the bag with grow-mix instead of soil - it's very fluffy) and pulled out three smallish but perfect Yukon Gold potatoes. Aug. 4 would have to be the earliest I ever pulled any potatoes.

So the question is whether I do a full harvest or not. At this point it's easy: NO! Most of the early potatoes I planted (Yukon Golds and Norland Reds) are probably still a little small and leaving them in the ground (or in this case in the bags) will only allow them to grow some more. I've done this with great success with all my potatoes, especially the later season white varieties. You can even wait until the entire plant above the surface dies back to the ground and then dig them. The ground generally acts as an insulator from temperature extremes and as long as it doesn't get too wet to rot your potatoes and you don't have any weird bug probalems, your spuds should stay safe.

In the meantime, anytime I need to add a spud or two to dinner, it will be easy to just reach into a bag and feel around for some food.